Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be easier said than done but if you have a clear idea of the purpose of the meeting and have prepared a thorough list of everything you want to know then you must stick to your guns and carry on relentlessly until you have worked your way through it . |
| 2 | Can he defy what may appear to be a paradox by both easing the burden of excessive interest rates and pressing on relentlessly until inflation is completely eradicated from the economy ? |
| 3 | Secondary school classes have also grown , with more pupils staying on rather than face the dole queue . |
| 4 | It is an achievement to be built on rather than despised or disregarded . |
| 5 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 6 | Creating a climate of trust and reliability within staff groups and between staff and senior staff , where management can be experienced as a kind of co-operative bank to draw on rather than a persecutor to defend against , will be a central task . |
| 7 | Some key caps have the letters printed on rather than moulded into the plastic . |
| 8 | Now multiply that by two then er , zero on rather than the two . |
| 9 | On the eighteenth of June attended this meeting erm perhaps this on rather than you jotting down |
| 10 | And the windows we shall put in here are the type of windows called a fenestral which are made of linen and I 'll show you one of those later on rather than explain it now . |
| 11 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 12 | If you balance , tape recordering , but , but you notice one particular piece that you would rather do an essay on rather than that bit there . |
| 13 | Yes , that 's right , I 'd like to raise a separate point on that later on rather than the accuracy ones for this , do the accuracy ones first . |
| 14 | Although they will grow on successfully when put out into the garden in spring or summer , the flowers you get in future years may well turn pink if you are not on an acid soil . |
| 15 | He moved on slowly until he reached one of the roads into the city . |
| 16 | They drove on slowly because Maggie 's visibility was limited . |
| 17 | I am delighted to announce that we will soon manufacturing ovens at our Hygena factory in Stockton extending the range of products manufactured in-house follows on naturally as M F I 's position as the leading ah retailer of built-in kitchen appliances . |
| 18 | Jezrael hung on only because her hands were twined through the strapping . |
| 19 | During a bright moon , headlights were kept off — otherwise they remained on only when driving on the road alone . |
| 20 | Approach road junctions with great care , consider your road position and your speed , drive on only when you are sure it is safe to do so and that you will not block the junction , watch out for long vehicles which maybe turning left or right , at the junction ahead , but which may have to use to make a turn , when waiting to emerge at a junction , do not assume that a vehicle approaching from the right which is signalling with it 's left hand direction indicator would turn left , wait to make sure do you know what I mean ? |
| 21 | In fact you never really train a war boar , you just learn to hang on better while the creature goes crazy , goring and stamping , twisting and biting , and generally causing as much damage as it can . |
| 22 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 23 | But the old man carried on regardless while Tina frowned . |
| 24 | His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else 's concentration . |
| 25 | What matters is her books , which with their luminous language and insights , will live on long after this bitchy attack has been forgotten . ’ |
| 26 | Even then , habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind then nearest bush , forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning , until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt . |
| 27 | We looked on together as the various hypostatical principles were distillated and redistillated . |
| 28 | But fears of a bulk chemical downturn and worries about the dollar overshadow the ICI share price which at 1,175p sells on less than 8 times 1989 earnings . |
| 29 | Despite the spread of private pensions , 75 per cent of pensioners lived on less than £3,500 a year . |
| 30 | In 1934 , there were 8,600,000 families , about 73.5 per cent of the total number of families in Britain , living on less than £4 per week . |